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Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire : generic interactions /
This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
321. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / John F. Miller & A.J. Woodman
- Crowds and leaders in imperial historiography and in epic / Philip Hardie
- Causation in post-Augustan epic / Bruce Gibson
- Too close? historian and poet in the Apocolocyntosis / Cynthia Damon
- Cannibalising history: Livian moments in Statius' Thebaid / Helen Lovatt
- Replacing history: inaugurating the new year in Statius, Siluae 4.1 / Jean-Michel Hulls
- The eruption of Vesuvius in the epistles of Statius and Pliny / Carole Newlands
- From Sallust to Silius Italicus: metus hostilis and the fall of Rome in the Punica / John Jacobs
- Rhoxolani blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian ethnography revisited / Rhiannon Ash
- Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) / Timothy A. Joseph
- Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the works of Juvenal and Tacitus / Kathryn Williams
- The unfortunate marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal on the fall of Messalina / Christopher Nappa
- The figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia / Matthew Taylor.